Weekly visions - week 28, 2024
Is one expected to watch more or fewer films while on holiday?
![The poster for Osgood Perkin’s Longlegs](/en/posts/weekly_visions___week_28__2024_/longlegs_hu6616c997dfb8e3452cc2bf7e0c99ad79_134679_400x200_fill_q100_box_center.jpg)
Two unexpected horror connections
Intersections between horror films and real life
![Peter Doig’s Echo Lake at Tate Britain](/en/posts/two_unexpected_horror_connections_/peter_doig_tate_britain_hu02aa61ae1d9de35cbe238d2676170cb9_170197_400x200_fill_q100_box_center.jpeg)
Weekly visions - week 27, 2024
Where we dangerously venture into kiri-kiri-kiri territory
![The poster for the film-of-the-week - *Martyrs* by Pascal Laugier](/en/posts/weekly_visions___week_27__2024_/martyrs_hueb9436f72504e45c67b5a55850619f4f_36166_400x200_fill_q100_box_center.jpg)
These past weeks I have often used the guidance of Scott Derrickson’s top 100 horror list
to choose my cinematic entertainment. At this point, the films included in it that I haven’t watched yet belong to one of these three categories - films that I just can’t find on streaming, classic movies from the ’60s and earlier (which - with exceptions - I don’t find very interesting), and films that are notoriously difficult to watch (which require the right mood).
Updates to this site
Getting to know Hugo better
Weekly visions - week 26, 2024
An unintended Mike-Flanagan-adjacent week
![The poster for Ti West’s 2009 film *House of the Devil*](/en/posts/weekly_visions___week_26__2024_/the_house_of_the_devil_hudc791c3d846d11d4d0d996161fc26a4b_87465_400x200_fill_q100_box_center.jpg)
Something from Almost Nothing, or, There and Back Again
My contribution to June 2024 IndieWeb Carnival
Writing on a pre-defined theme has never been my cup of tea. Even at school, writing an essay meant facing an hour of total lack of inspiration, and coming up with something - in readable handwriting - in the half hour or so left.
This is what the IndieWeb Carnival
reminds me of. I have waited for the good part of June to even begin to write, and I have five days left before the deadline (though Andrei
- the host for this month - has kindly extended the deadline by a couple of days).